Everything We Never Were — by Alex Almario on

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Something happened to me in the middle of being absolutely enchanted by Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies – I realized that films about “you...

The Manic Pixie Dream Girl Always Wins — by Alex Almario on

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The minute I saw Annicka Dolonius’s Enid in “Ang Nawawala”, I wanted to hate her. I really did. The ingredients were all there: she was nam...

The Politics of Art: The Great Oxymoron — by Alex Almario on

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“In a larger sense, all writing is about autobiography: everything that you write, including criticism and fiction, writes you as you writ...

Top Ten Female Rom-Com Characters of All Time — by Alex Almario on

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Since it’s Valentine’s and I’ve got nothing better to do, I’ve decided to pay tribute to the Romantic Comedy genre by paying tribute to the...

Melancholia vs. The Tree of Life: A Cinematic Weird-Off — by Alex Almario on

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When I saw the trailers for "The Tree of Life" and "Melancholia" back-to-back this past summer, I became instantly th...

The Profound Shallowness of Anne Curtis — by Alex Almario on

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Almost everyone who knows me on a mid-level knows that I am a huge Anne Curtis fan. Now, this is true. I am not going to deny that I have a...